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Jan. 2nd, 2017 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariSo, about that Mariah Carey New Years debacle? I'm pretty sure I know what happened to her. Emily once told me about WHY performers have monitors.
If her earpiece was dead, then all she had to go off of was hearing the music from the speakers directed at the audience, likely reflected BACK at her from the nearby walls. It's a tiny, but very distinct, delay. You start singing, then suddenly hear yourself reflected back a split second later, and freeze because you think you're off time with the music.
Imagine hearing yourself on delay during a phone call. I'm almost 100% certain that's what happened here.
If her earpiece was dead, then all she had to go off of was hearing the music from the speakers directed at the audience, likely reflected BACK at her from the nearby walls. It's a tiny, but very distinct, delay. You start singing, then suddenly hear yourself reflected back a split second later, and freeze because you think you're off time with the music.
Imagine hearing yourself on delay during a phone call. I'm almost 100% certain that's what happened here.
